Flashchat: Who is chatting

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This is a simple ForumHome display of who is currently using your Flashchat.

Version 2.20 is for use with Flashchat 4.1.x - however, it may work with older versions of Flashchat if set-up correctly.

The main features of Version 2.xx are ;

1. It displays the list on Forum Home with the "Users online" display.

2. The list view is collapsable, so you just see the number.

3. Users who should display as coloured or bold etc should be displayed correctly. (based on the display usergroup)

4. If you 'hover' over a username it will show the room they are chatting in.

5. If the chat is empty, a simple "no one is chatting" message is displayed.


Note: This will not display the names of any bots in the chat, due to the strange way that flashchat stores this information.


With help from Cyricx a CPMS module is located in this post. (Version 2.20 only, unsupported - use at your own risk).

[Paul M]

The code is located in index.php, so it will only generate the list on the forumhome. You would need to install the hack code elsewhere to have it on all pages. This is discussed earlier in the thread - starting about here.

[derekivey]

For some reason it doesn't show the name of the bot thats in the room, it just shows a blank space. Any ideas on what is wrong?

[Paul M]

Hmm, yes ......

It's never going to show their name - as its not stored anywhere except in a text file .... what a daft system.

Sorry, but I suggest you set $showbots = false; in the hack code as it's never going to work. I'm going to remove that bit for now as it cannot query a database to get the information.

I'll look at it sometime after my holiday to see how easy it is to get the data from the text file it uses, but it may just end up that bots will not be displayed by name, just called "bot", or possibly something like "Users currently in the Chat: 4 (Members: 3, Bots: 1)" with just the list of members.

[derekivey]

Ok No Problem, I'll just do that.

[LTW]

Paul M ... thank you for this ... i've clicked install.

I have a question / request ... i hope it's not already been asked, as i've not read every post in this thread ... but ...

I'd like to know if you can help me put the online chatters in the header? I'm currently using Chen / Erwin's Online Users Mod, which does this for the online users. I'd like for my chatters to be listed up there too. I'd like it setup exactly as you have it below, only displayed above as well.

Is this possible ... can you help me?

Thanks a Bunch.

LTW

[Paul M]

Drop me a PM and I'll look when I return from holiday - I don't have time before.

[Prisoner]

I get the following error when I tried to install this.

Warning: main(./chat/inc/config.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /index.php on line 299

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required './chat/inc/config.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/rwalker/public_html/forum/index.php on line 299

Anyone have any ideas? The forum and chat directories are at the same level...ie. /public_html/chat and public_html/forum.

Thanks!

[Prisoner]

I got it to work by changing"

PHP Code:

require_once("./" . $fcfolder . "/inc/config.php"); 
require_once("./" . $fcfolder . "/inc/config.srv.php"); 


to

PHP Code:

require_once("/home/rwalker/public_html/" . $fcfolder . "/inc/config.php"); 
require_once("/home/rwalker/public_html/" . $fcfolder . "/inc/config.srv.php"); 


Was this a sound fix, or is there a better way?

[sinoeu]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Well it took me a few minutes to figure out your mistake, but the small snippet of code finally gave it away.

You have put the hack code in the wrong file. It goes in vB's index.php - you appear to have installed it in flashchat's index.php.

There's no mistake like that in my case. But I still have no name display under the total chatters number display. However, when there's nobody in the chatroom, there is a display of "No one is currently using the chat" under the "Members currently in the Chat: 0" :disappointed:

who can tell me why? I am using FlashChat 3931 under vbb 3.07

[Paul M]

Sorry, but 3931 is a very old version of Flashchat, I have no idea if this is still compatible with it.